NEW MARKETING DIRECTOR WILL HELP THE COMPANY TO REACH ITS NEXT GROWTH PHASE IN THE WAN OPTIMIZATION MARKETPLACE.

Plymouth, MN – March 1st, 2009 – Ecessa, a leader in affordable WAN Optimization Controllers specializing in WAN and ISP link aggregation, load balancing, failover, and network security for small-to-medium sized enterprises (SME), today announced the appointment of Marc Goodman as the company’s new marketing director.

Marc Goodman has over 25 years experience in the technology industry, with a history of building industry leading brands for emerging companies. Marc is responsible for leading Ecessa’s overall corporate and product marketing.

Prior to joining Ecessa, Marc was marketing director at KEMP Technologies. Previous to KEMP he held marketing management positions within various high technology companies. From 1998 to 2001 Marc served as senior director of marketing at F5 Networks, where he led the marketing organization through the company’s successful IPO. In 1993 he served as the director of marketing at SPRY/Compuserve, where he helped spearhead one of the first Internet consulting companies. Marc has also served in marketing management positions with Asentria, Threshold Networks, UBmatrix, Cogent Networks, Attachmate and Wall Data.

“We are very pleased that Marc has joined our company. His background and understanding of our market will be a great asset to Ecessa as we move forward in strengthening our position in the marketplace,” said Ron Thomas, president and CEO of Ecessa. Marc’s successful track record and experience in managing global marketing organizations brings a significant capability to Ecessa.”

About Ecessa

Ecessa is a leader in affordable WAN Optimization Controllers for WAN and ISP link aggregation, automated load balancing, failover and network security tailored to meet the needs of small-to-medium sized enterprises (SME) that rely on the Internet for e-commerce and business-critical application delivery. Ecessa helps SMEs rapidly grow their business with 24/7 network high-availability, optimized WAN performance, flexible scalability and secure access - while streamlining IT costs.

At one-third the cost of other competing products, Ecessa’s PowerLink delivers industry leading price/performance value. Ecessa optimizes WAN traffic for organizations of all types who wish to improve network and application performance and eliminate downtime for business-critical, time-sensitive applications.

Ecessa uses multi-homing to connect a single LAN to multiple ISPs; enables quality-of-service to prioritize network traffic that ensures the best possible bandwidth is always available to applications, especially during periods of congestion; and uses link load balancing and automatic failover to direct traffic to WAN links with the optimum bandwidth and cost-efficiencies.

Over 6,000 companies rely on Ecessa to cost-effectively ensure that each application has the appropriate Internet bandwidth and availability needed to support user and business requirements.

The company is headquartered in Plymouth, MN. For more information, visit www.ecessa.com, or call us at 1-800-669-6242.

WAN Optimization is also known as WAN Failover, Link Aggregation, ISP Load Balancing, ISP Fail-over, Multi-homing Load Balancing, QoS WAN Optimization, WAN Load Balancing, Dual WAN Routers, VPN Load Balancing, MultiWAN Switching, DNS Load Balancing, Application Delivery Optimization, Internet Traffic Management, Network Bandwidth Management and Bandwidth Aggregation.

Press Contact:
Marc Goodman
Press@ecessa.com